Refugee Girl Quotes

“If one had cigarettes, one could barter for food with the German farmers. If the Latvian did not speak German, then the exchange was primitive and went something like this: "Ich Zigarette, du Schwein." ("Me - cigarette, you - pig") The farmer understood, and the DP returned to camp with a hunk of smoked bacon.”
― Maruta Lietins Ray, Refugee Girl: A Memoir

“The traditional pīrāgi, small rolls baked with a stuffing of bacon, filled the house with a heavenly aroma; there were the jellied meats or galerts, the pork roast and the vegetable-beet-herring salad called rasols.”
― Maruta Lietins Ray, Refugee Girl: A Memoir

“She quickly perceived that the male figure rapidly receding in the distance pulling an empty sled was somehow connected to the small human package lying in the snowbank.”
― Maruta Lietins Ray, Refugee Girl: A Memoir